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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
. II. pp. 185, 206. Some of these qualifications and admissions were not well received by extreme Peace men. They were sharply criticised by Thomas Drew, Jr., in Burritt's Christian Citizen, and were not quite satisfactory to Amasa Walker. Elihu Burritt, Amasa Walker, John Jay, and other friends of Peace urged Sumner to attendElihu Burritt, Amasa Walker, John Jay, and other friends of Peace urged Sumner to attend the Peace Congress which was to meet in Paris in the summer of 1849, but he was unable to do so. Prof. W. S. Tyler, of Amherst, expressed a strong desire that he should undertake a general canvass of the West, where the war spirit was prevalent, in behalf of the cause of Peace. Of his recent address, Professor Tyler wrote July To Richard Cobden, July 9:— . . . The peace question, though appealing less palpably to the immediate interests of politicians, has been winning attention. Burritt has indefatigably visited distant places, and aroused or quickened an interest in the cause. His singleness of devotion to this work fills me with reverence. Pe
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
lution for an international system of post-office orders, with the view to facilitate the transmission of small sums of money between our own and other countries. He was always greatly interested in this reform, and was in correspondence with Elihu Burritt concerning it; and he renewed the proposition at subsequent sessions. With a view to cheapen postage generally, he called for information in detail concerning the foreign and domestic service. Other resolutions offered by him related to ves her husband. Mr. Seward himself wrote also from Auburn, September 22: Your speech is an admirable, a great, a very great one. That is my opinion; and every one around me, of all sorts, confesses it. The reformers were gladdened. Burritt, toiling in England for ocean penny postage, wept with joy and admiration while reading the magnificent speech. William Jay pronounced it worthy of the gentleman, the lawyer, and the Christian. His son John, as soon as he read the telegraphic